“The Fixer: A Story From Sarajevo” by Joe Sacco

In “The Fixer: A Story From Sarajevo” by Joe Sacco he exemplifies many examples of scale and how it’s used. Scale can be objective, subjective, relative, have depth, or have contrast. In this page in Sacco’s comic scale shows depth especially where the small frames are of the man smoking a cigarette. It shows the importance and seriousness of the content that’s being shown. That’s one of the important parts in scale, it usually shows the audience what is the most important and what they should be focusing on in the frame. If an object is bigger it is more important than when an object is smaller. In other cases smaller object around bigger objects create depth. It also shows relativity and contrast. Such as in the first frame of this page. You see that the first two men are bigger than the three men in the background. However, the two men in the very back are the only one’s talking to each other. The scale of how big the other men are surrounding the smaller two gives the illusion of a tunnel and at the end of the tunnel are the two men which shows that they are the main focus and the illusion of the tunnel is made through the contrast and relativity of the scale of the other men around them. As for scale causing movement, the two frames in the second frame have a man with his face scaled bigger with his mouth in the center as the focal point. They are placed in a way around objects that are a lot smaller that it creates a movement of the eye from point to point. And that makes it look like frame two is the background of the two smaller frames, yet the object in the smaller frames are bigger.